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Mike Harvison

@mikeharvison.bsky.social
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Decolonizing & Matrifying my mind, nondualist, #Pro-Feminist, #HeForShe Studying the intersection of human origins, matriarchy, mythology and the future of humanity. Hunter-Gatherer of songs. 320 ppm of CO₂ years old. “Eppur si muove”

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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Warning! If you respond and contribute croutons to this salad related request you will be besieged with meal requests from every quarter with renewed vigor.
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” — Nikola Tesla 🔥 How frequency vibrations can impact fire 🧪
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Man shows how frequency vibrations can impact fire.. 👁️🤯
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Preprint here on NE England Iron Age matrilines www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ancient DNA reveals matrilineal organisation and recurrent unions between dominant matrilines in Iron Age Britain
Kinship practices underpin all traditional societies, forming the basis for socially sanctioned reproductive unions, residence patterns and the inheritance of rights and property[1][1],[2][2]. Althoug...
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Monumental without managerial.
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Kaillachuro: early monumental architecture of the Titicaca Basin, 5300–3000 BP | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Kaillachuro: early monumental architecture of the Titicaca Basin, 5300–3000 BP - Volume 99 Issue 405
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Watching the Obama Presidential Center opening celebration because we need something uniquely American to enjoy today. The celebration of this man feels more like a celebration of of America than anything surrounding Independence Day.
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
Bound to be an interesting read, but several parts I would want to challenge vociferously (as usual, the Lewis-Williams bandwagon on 'trance' entoptics represented as taking psychotropics, but not in Bushman case; a complete failure to address gender and ritual etc; Graeber + Wengrow are […]
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
From Cara Ocobock: The 9+ month marathon: How pregnancy may have shaped human endurance capacities. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
So-called patchwork families are also seen with hunter-gatherers like the Hadza and are probably pretty ancient. This is a recent genetic analysis of Neolithic social/genetic networks: 'ancient DNA from 203 individuals from six European sites who fell into two culture groups: the Western Funnel […]
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026
RE: c.im/@RadicalAnthro/116587909665962… This film is so funny and smart. A total treat, enjoy!
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A record that spans at least 78 K years Cave morphology and human-mediated sediment deposition: Late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the cave floor at Panga ya Saidi, coastal Kenya🏺🧪 Jennifer Miller, @nicoleboivin.bsky.social , @mdpetraglia.bsky.social et al journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Panga ya Saidi site location and excavation areas.
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
DOCC has the risk of creating OAE. The feedstock for OAE is expensive. Is there an opportunity to couple DOCC outputs to OAE inputs? What sort of platform would we need to make it sustainable?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It’s good to be alerted that our paper is available as a preprint. Please read it and send me fan mail. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Three challenges to marine carbon dioxide removal - npj Ocean Sustainability
npj Ocean Sustainability - Three challenges to marine carbon dioxide removal
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🌊 Review: Transitions of the Atlantic Ocean circulation www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Transitions of the Atlantic Ocean circulation - Nature Reviews Physics
The multistable dynamics of the Atlantic Ocean circulation pose a central problem in climate physics, because instabilities of the flows can have large climate impacts. This Review uses a dynamical sy...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 22/05/2026
The multistable dynamics of the Atlantic Ocean circulation pose a central problem in climate physics, because instabilities of the flows can have large climate impacts. A Review in Nature Reviews Physics unifies much of the model behaviour that has been found. go.nature.com/49HW9kQ ⚛️🌊🧪
This is figure 1, which shows the Atlantic Ocean circulation.
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I never understood the argument that humans could not live in rainforests. Why do we look mainly to Eastern Africa? It’s where the age appropriate rocks are.
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Mother was a programmer before the age of computers.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
My annual Mother's Day post. Because some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true.

Mother is a verb as well as a noun, so I hope everyone can honor whatever mothers them and whatever capacity to mother they have, or the equivalent in whatever gender language works for them: 
Some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true. The other half of the question of what there is to celebrate is what mothered and mothers you, how you mother yourself, how you celebrate and recognize what cares for you and takes care of you, and what do you care for in return. 
I remember once looking at the Pacific Ocean, to which I often reverted in trouble, and thinking "Everything was my mother but my mother." Books were my mother, coastlines, running water and landscapes, trees and the flight of birds, zazen and zendos, quiet and cellos, reading and writing, bookstores and familiar views and routines, the changing evening sky, cooking and baking, walking and discovering, rhythms and blues, friends and interior spaces and all forms of kindness, of which there has been more and more as time goes by.
And of my own mother I wrote, in The Faraway Nearby: Like lawyers, writers seek consistency; they make a case for their point of view; they do so by leaving out some evidence; but let me mention the hundreds of sandwiches my mother made during my elementary school years, the peanut butter sandwiches I ate alone on school benches in the open, throwing the crusts into the air where the seagulls would swoop to catch them before they hit the ground. 
When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to sp…
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 10/04/2026
New DNA research overturns a key assumption: the “Polynesian motif,” a maternal lineage spanning nearly all of Remote Oceania, didn’t come from Taiwan — it arose on the north coast of New Guinea ~6,500 years ago. #Archaeogenetics #PacificPrehistory #Lapita www.anthropology.net/p/the-polyne...
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The Polynesian Motif Was Already There
A genetic signature found across the entire Remote Pacific traces back to New Guinea long before Austronesian seafarers arrived — and that changes the story of Pacific colonization
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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨 Publication alert🚨 Early humans in South Africa were quarrying stone as long as 220,000 years ago at the site of Jojosi @natcomms.nature.com - specialized, long-term use of a source of a raw material source in Stone Age Africa: Read the paper #openaccess here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Specialised and persistent raw material procurement by humans in the Middle Pleistocene - Nature Communications
The authors here demonstrate that hominins were consistently and specifically procuring a single kind of raw material to make stone tools at the South African site of Jojosi between 220 and 110 thousa...
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 07/04/2026
220,000 years ago, early humans in South Africa were making dedicated quarrying trips — not just picking up stone on the way to something else. The Jojosi site rewrites the timeline of deliberate resource planning. #Paleoanthropology #MiddleStoneAge #HumanEvolution
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The Stone Seekers of Jojosi
A site in South Africa's grasslands reveals that Homo sapiens were making dedicated quarrying expeditions 220,000 years ago — far earlier than the field assumed possible
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026
We took our 'We're on Sex Strike' banner on the massive March Together
A bright red banner with 'We're on sex strike' spelt in big shadowed letters being carried down past Green Park by on the left, a young woman in pink bias cut skirt, on the left, older woman in red fleece. The banner has the slogan 'Sex workers of the world unite' in smaller letters across the top.
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026
It was massive. The Met is playing to the fascist gallery calling it 50,000. Yeah so friends had already reached Whitehall, while we were still waiting 2 hrs back at Park Lane, hadn't even started! More likely 500,000 alright […]
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Clovis People may have eaten the megafauna but who ate the Clovis People?
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026
Data sources here ourworldindata.org/quaternary-megaf…
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Did humans cause the Quaternary megafauna extinction?
10,000 to 50,000 years ago, hundreds of the largest mammals went extinct. It's likely that humans were the key driver of this.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thoughtful piece: “Rather than focusing on a crisis of boys or girls, many specialists say the priority should be supporting young people overall, sometimes in a gender-neutral way” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Are boys really in crisis? What the science says in the age of the manosphere
Some data suggest that boys and young men are struggling with school, health and masculinity. But does talk of a male crisis further sideline women and girls?
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026
Well entering the 'lunar sphere of influence' was what made us human in the first place.
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
No reference for this claim. “Like modern humans, Neandertals were mostly hairless, with most of their bodies covered only by fine vellus hairs.” How do we know this?
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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Anthropogenic Global Warming & Storms🧵 theconversation.com/even-weak-tr...
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Even weak tropical cyclones have grown more intense worldwide – we tracked 30 years of them using currents
Research shows storms that might have caused minimal damage a few decades ago are becoming stronger and more destructive as the planet warms.
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Vanishing lakes in Tibet may have triggered earthquakes by awakening faults in Earth’s crust. When they begin to dry up, that weight is lost and the crust slowly rises again. Lake Unloading Drives Fault Slip and Rift Asymmetry in Southern Tibet 🧪 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Nam Co Lake in Tibet. The region was once home to much bigger lakes that stretched for more than 125 miles. (Image credit: wx-bradwang / Getty Images)
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Book slut 💙 @heatherbookslut.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The World Is Burning. It’s Time for Matriarchy. An Evidence-Based Case for a New Social Order "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." — Alice Walker We are living through a moment of simultaneous, spectacular collapse. The systems that promised to…
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The World Is Burning. It’s Time for Matriarchy.
An Evidence-Based Case for a New Social Order "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." — Alice Walker We are living through a moment of simultaneous, spectacular collapse. The systems that promised to protect women and children have not merely failed, they have been exposed as mechanisms of exploitation dressed in the language of protection.
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This post sparked a question. Is it Language or vocabulary that shapes thought? Cultural isolates within a language group can use different words for similar concepts. Many of these isolates or age groups are defined by the use of certain words. What do you think?
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Tuesday's session with Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis on their forthcoming book 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' (Yale UP 2026)
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The myth of collateral damage…
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Cassana 🍻 (@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com)
I want to tackle this somewhat, because it annoys the hell out of me. So I've been hearing white supremacists have started being smug about Aurignacian peoples in now southern Germany developing proto...
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Next Tuesday's session with Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis on their forthcoming book 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' (Yale UP 2026)
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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
For for thought from the Moorjani lab!
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Gen Alpha Is Sick of Superheroes. They Want Father Figures Instead.
Young dudes are tired of watching stuff get blowed up real good by superheroes who save the world without ever discussing their feelings.
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
These duds really love their own imaginations. They’re so cut off from their own embodied life, needs, emotions and feelings they can’t guess what an actual life must be like. In its place they substitute fever dreams and fantasies. It’s of a culture that swept our planet a few thousand years ago.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – ['existential threat'] – one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy." George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 26/02/2026
Mosquito genomes may hold hidden evidence of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia. A new phylogenomic study finds human-biting behavior in Anopheles evolved ~1.8Mya — a million years before modern humans arrived. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #Malaria www.anthropology.net/p/what-mosqu...
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What Mosquitoes Remember About Homo erectus
A new genomic study suggests the ancestors of Southeast Asia's deadliest malaria vectors started targeting humans nearly two million years ago — long before Homo sapiens arrived.
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Well... if you ask the biologists, they'll tell you that the main issue is that people don't understand the biological concept of fittness (which has more to do with having grandkids than anything else). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness...
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Fitness (biology) - Wikipedia
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
www.foragerchildstudies.com/our-research
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Our Research | Forager Children
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. The Guerrilla Girls are at the Getty Center! This new exhibition explores the anonymous feminist art collective’s 40-year career. Explore their eye-catching artworks & humorous public interventions that helped shake up the art world. #GuerrillaGirls #Art #Museums
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Mike Harvison @mikeharvison.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Defeat Supremacy: Build Community, Not Opposition #shorts
YouTube video by Darante' LaMar
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American Rivers @americanrivers.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A natural approach to managing floodplains — the low-lying areas around a river — can reduce flood risk to our communities and provide critical habitat for waterfowl, fish, land animals, and freshwater species. 🎥 Watch how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiX_1vimFcs
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American Rivers Restoring Floodplains
Small, regular floods are part of the natural ebb and flow of a healthy river. But development and increasingly frequent and powerful storms are making floods bigger and more damaging. A natural approach to managing floodplains -- the low-lying areas ar...
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The study inevitably focuses on Western lifestyle women, which may say plenty about what this patriarchal society values and demands. Menopause/post-reproductive lifespan had a significant role in our becoming human. And may not always have been plagued by anxiety, depression or memory problems.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
🔵 ICYMI: A new study led by Scripps Oceanography and @gpsucsd.bsky.social scientists provides a more complete measure of the monetary harm caused by global climate damages. @insideclimatenews.org shares more. ⬇️
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Ocean Damage Nearly Doubles the Cost of Climate Change - Inside Climate News
The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scr...
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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
1/7 Look, Mom, no hands! They have studied the age at which chimpanzees take the most risks (jumping and doing crazy things from tree to tree). It turns out that they have a peak in childhood, and it decreases as they grow older. This tells us something very interesting about ourselves.
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